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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of January 0307 | EVENT | Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi. |
| 8th of January 0871 | EVENT | Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings. |
| 8th of January 1297 | EVENT | Monaco gains its independence. |
| 8th of January 1499 | EVENT | Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany. |
| 8th of January 1734 | EVENT | Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. |
| 8th of January 1746 | EVENT | Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling. |
| 8th of January 1790 | EVENT | George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address in New York City. |
| 8th of January 1806 | EVENT | Cape Colony becomes a British colony. |
| 8th of January 1811 | EVENT | An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana. |
| 8th of January 1815 | EVENT | War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans : Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British. |
| 8th of January 1835 | EVENT | The United States national debt is 0 for the only time. |
| 8th of January 1838 | EVENT | Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). |
| 8th of January 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield |
| 8th of January 1867 | EVENT | African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. |
| 8th of January 1877 | EVENT | Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory. |
| 8th of January 1889 | EVENT | Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' -- his punched card calculator. |
| 8th of January 1904 | EVENT | The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. |
| 8th of January 1906 | EVENT | A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people. |
| 8th of January 1912 | EVENT | The African National Congress is founded. |
| 8th of January 1918 | EVENT | President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. |
| 8th of January 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. |
| 8th of January 1956 | EVENT | Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. |
| 8th of January 1961 | EVENT | In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria. |
| 8th of January 1962 | EVENT | The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands. |
| 8th of January 1963 | EVENT | Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. |
| 8th of January 1964 | EVENT | President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States. |
| 8th of January 1973 | EVENT | Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched. |
| 8th of January 1973 | EVENT | Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins. |
| 8th of January 1975 | EVENT | Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband. |
| 8th of January 1977 | EVENT | Three bombs went off in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. |
| 8th of January 1978 | EVENT | Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh. |
| 8th of January 1979 | EVENT | The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland. |
| 8th of January 1981 | EVENT | A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time". |
| 8th of January 1982 | EVENT | The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. |
| 8th of January 1989 | EVENT | Beginning of Japanese Heisei era. |
| 8th of January 1989 | EVENT | The Kegworth air disaster. British Midland flight 92 crashes into the M1 motorway killing 47 people out of 127 on board. |
| 8th of January 1994 | EVENT | Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. |
| 8th of January 1996 | EVENT | An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people. |
| 8th of January 2002 | EVENT | President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act. |
| 8th of January 2003 | EVENT | Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbak?r Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers. |
| 8th of January 2004 | EVENT | The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 8th of January 2005 | EVENT | The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired. |
| 8th of January 2010 | EVENT | Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 African Cup of Nations, killing three. |
| 8th of January 2011 | EVENT | An attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13, including Giffords. |
| 8th of January 1556 | BIRTHDAY | Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623) |
| 8th of January 1583 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643) |
| 8th of January 1587 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616) |
| 8th of January 1601 | BIRTHDAY | Baltasar Gracian y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658) |
| 8th of January 1628 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695) |
| 8th of January 1632 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694) |
| 8th of January 1635 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Manuel Fernandez de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop (d. 1709) |
| 8th of January 1735 | BIRTHDAY | John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815) |
| 8th of January 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Edmond Charles Genet, French diplomat (d. 1834) |
| 8th of January 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844) |
| 8th of January 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874) |
| 8th of January 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831) |
| 8th of January 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872) |
| 8th of January 1805 | BIRTHDAY | John Bigler, American lawyer, politician and diplomat; 3rd Governor of California; and former United States Envoy to Chile (d. 1871) |
| 8th of January 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878) |
| 8th of January 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss virtuoso pianist and composer (d. 1871) |
| 8th of January 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893) |
| 8th of January 1821 | BIRTHDAY | James Longstreet, American Confederate general and diplomat; and former United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire (d. 1904) |
| 8th of January 1821 | BIRTHDAY | W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862) |
| 8th of January 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913) |
| 8th of January 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Gonzalez Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861) |
| 8th of January 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889) |
| 8th of January 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Hans von Bulow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894) |
| 8th of January 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Bierstadt, German/American painter (d. 1902) |
| 8th of January 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912) |
| 8th of January 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929) |
| 8th of January 1843 | BIRTHDAY | John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926) |
| 8th of January 1852 | BIRTHDAY | James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931) |
| 8th of January 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Booth, daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1903) |
| 8th of January 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934) |
| 8th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892) |
| 8th of January 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac, an American patron of French music, and of the arts, sciences, and letters (d. 1943) |
| 8th of January 1866 | BIRTHDAY | William G. Conley, American politician and 18th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1940) |
| 8th of January 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961) |
| 8th of January 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930) |
| 8th of January 1871 | BIRTHDAY | James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940) |
| 8th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956) |
| 8th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953) |
| 8th of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960) |
| 8th of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941) |
| 8th of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick J. Hurley, American soldier, statesman, and diplomat; 51st United States Secretary of War and former United States Ambassadors to the Republic of China (d. 1963) |
| 8th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967) |
| 8th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945) |
| 8th of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972) |
| 8th of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960) |
| 8th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957) |
| 8th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986) |
| 8th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972) |
| 8th of January 1894 | BIRTHDAY | St. Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941) |
| 8th of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Ford, American medium (d. 1971) |
| 8th of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Jaromir Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967) |
| 8th of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977) |
| 8th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Solomon Bandaranaike, Ceylonese Prime Minister (d. 1959) |
| 8th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982) |
| 8th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988) |
| 8th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987) |
| 8th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Brandt, Alsatian Nazi war criminal (d. 1948) |
| 8th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Franjo Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981) |
| 8th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988) |
| 8th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975) |
| 8th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936 (d.1995) |
| 8th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999) |
| 8th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995) |
| 8th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992) |
| 8th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (d. 1998) |
| 8th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress and entertainer (d. 1970) |
| 8th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006) |
| 8th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992) |
| 8th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence E. Walsh, American jurist and 4th United States Deputy Attorney General |
| 8th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991) |
| 8th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard |
| 8th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Abbey Simon, U.S. pianist |
| 8th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986) |
| 8th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Storch, American actor |
| 8th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985) |
| 8th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgio Tozzi, American bass |
| 8th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008) |
| 8th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Lees, American composer (d. 2010) |
| 8th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Moody, English actor |
| 8th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942) |
| 8th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jani Christou, Greek composer |
| 8th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer |
| 8th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Soupy Sales, American comedian (d. 2009) |
| 8th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Lear, American soprano |
| 8th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004) |
| 8th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator |
| 8th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Slade Gorton, American politician |
| 8th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Miron, French-Canadian poet and editor (d. 1996) |
| 8th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor |
| 8th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991) |
| 8th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator |
| 8th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Marie Straub, French film director |
| 8th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ko Un, Korean poet |
| 8th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987) |
| 8th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Freese, American baseball player |
| 8th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988) |
| 8th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004) |
| 8th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Elvis Presley, American singer (d. 1977) |
| 8th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis H. Lapham, American writer |
| 8th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist |
| 8th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Zdenek Macal, Czech conductor |
| 8th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer |
| 8th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian bass-baritone |
| 8th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Eubanks, American game show host |
| 8th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan fashion designer |
| 8th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator |
| 8th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989) |
| 8th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Valya Balkanska, Bulgarian folk singer |
| 8th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author |
| 8th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician, Prime Minister 2001-2006 |
| 8th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Yvette Mimieux, American actress |
| 8th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Murray, American author and pundit |
| 8th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Brooks, American writer |
| 8th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host |
| 8th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Noone, American actress |
| 8th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Kadir Topbas, Turkish politician |
| 8th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jeannie Lewis, Australian actress and singer |
| 8th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors) |
| 8th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | William Bonin, American serial killer and sex offender (d. 1996) |
| 8th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Don Bendell, American author & karate master |
| 8th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Sylvester, English singer and musician |
| 8th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | David Bowie, English musician |
| 8th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician |
| 8th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie Walters, American actress |
| 8th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director |
| 8th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John McTiernan, American film director |
| 8th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician |
| 8th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist |
| 8th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Reynolds, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois and convicted sex offender |
| 8th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Sutter, American baseball player |
| 8th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer |
| 8th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Reno, Canadian musician |
| 8th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nacho Duato, Spanish classical dancer and choreographer |
| 8th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | David Lang, American composer |
| 8th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler |
| 8th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (d. 1982) |
| 8th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005) |
| 8th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Arkell, English chess Grandmaster |
| 8th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Smith, American athlete |
| 8th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Marion, American musician |
| 8th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Forbes, American actress |
| 8th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Pitillo, American actress |
| 8th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2009) |
| 8th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990) |
| 8th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Anderson, American basketball player |
| 8th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | R. Kelly, American singer |
| 8th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Mullings, American boxer |
| 8th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Abercrombie, American musician |
| 8th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ami Dolenz, American actress |
| 8th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Friend, Australian actress |
| 8th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Susser, German chef |
| 8th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Giambi, American baseball player |
| 8th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Zuberbuhler, Swiss footballer |
| 8th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sean McKeever, American writer |
| 8th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer |
| 8th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Knight, English sound designer |
| 8th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Henning Solberg, Norwegian rally driver |
| 8th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 8th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Matsouka, Greek politician |
| 8th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Harris Jayaraj, Indian music composer |
| 8th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Clue, American DJ and producer |
| 8th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician |
| 8th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Meyers, American actor |
| 8th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Pavano, American baseball player |
| 8th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Pederson, Canadian actor |
| 8th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress |
| 8th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Seeger, German race walker |
| 8th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Benson, American actress |
| 8th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster |
| 8th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player |
| 8th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Torry Castellano, American musician (The Donnas) |
| 8th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer |
| 8th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mirella van Melis, Dutch track and road cyclist |
| 8th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Polley, Canadian actress |
| 8th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer |
| 8th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer |
| 8th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Nichols, American actress |
| 8th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player |
| 8th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Schafer, Swiss curler |
| 8th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player |
| 8th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Wil Francis, American singer |
| 8th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Gaby Hoffmann, American actress |
| 8th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | John Utaka, Nigerian footballer |
| 8th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuele Calaio, Italian footballer |
| 8th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Colombo, Argentine/Mexican actor and singer |
| 8th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Mordetzky, American wrestler |
| 8th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player |
| 8th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Rachael Lampa, American singer |
| 8th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Parker Kennedy, Canadian actress |
| 8th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | David Silva, Spanish footballer |
| 8th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003) |
| 8th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Ozawa, Japanese/French-Canadian pornstar |
| 8th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player |
| 8th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Allison Harvard, American artist and fashion model |
| 8th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player |
| 8th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kristjan Einar, Icelandic racing driver |
| 8th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer |
| 8th of January 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Cyrus, American actress |
| 8th of January 2011 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine of Denmark, twin children of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark |
| 8th of January 0307 | DEATH | Jin Huidi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (Born 259) |
| 8th of January 0482 | DEATH | Saint Severinus of Noricum |
| 8th of January 1100 | DEATH | Antipope Clement III (Born c.1029) |
| 8th of January 1107 | DEATH | Edgar of Scotland (Born 1074) |
| 8th of January 1198 | DEATH | Pope Celestine III (Born c.1106) |
| 8th of January 1324 | DEATH | Marco Polo, Italian explorer (Born 1254) |
| 8th of January 1337 | DEATH | Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (Born 1267) |
| 8th of January 1456 | DEATH | St. Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (Born 1381) |
| 8th of January 1464 | DEATH | Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (Born 1385) |
| 8th of January 1557 | DEATH | Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (Born 1522) |
| 8th of January 1570 | DEATH | Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (Born c.1510) |
| 8th of January 1598 | DEATH | John George, Elector of Brandenburg (Born 1525) |
| 8th of January 1642 | DEATH | Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (Born 1564) |
| 8th of January 1707 | DEATH | John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (Born 1648) |
| 8th of January 1713 | DEATH | Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (Born 1653) |
| 8th of January 1775 | DEATH | John Baskerville, English printer (Born 1706) |
| 8th of January 1789 | DEATH | Jack Broughton, English boxer (Born c.1703) |
| 8th of January 1794 | DEATH | Justus Moser, German statesman (Born 1720) |
| 8th of January 1815 | DEATH | Edward Pakenham, British general (Born 1778) |
| 8th of January 1825 | DEATH | Eli Whitney, American inventor (Born 1765) |
| 8th of January 1854 | DEATH | William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (Born 1768) |
| 8th of January 1865 | DEATH | Aime, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (Born 1779) |
| 8th of January 1874 | DEATH | Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (Born 1814) |
| 8th of January 1878 | DEATH | Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (Born 1821) |
| 8th of January 1880 | DEATH | Joshua A. Norton, Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico (Born 1811) |
| 8th of January 1896 | DEATH | William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (Born 1825) |
| 8th of January 1896 | DEATH | Paul Verlaine, French poet (Born 1844) |
| 8th of January 1901 | DEATH | John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (Born 1873) |
| 8th of January 1916 | DEATH | Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (Born 1860) |
| 8th of January 1916 | DEATH | Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (Born 1884) |
| 8th of January 1918 | DEATH | Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (Born 1827) |
| 8th of January 1932 | DEATH | Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (Born 1866) |
| 8th of January 1934 | DEATH | Andrei Bely, Russian writer (Born 1880) |
| 8th of January 1934 | DEATH | Serge Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (Born 1886) |
| 8th of January 1938 | DEATH | Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (Born 1880) |
| 8th of January 1941 | DEATH | Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and founder of the Scout movement (Born 1857) |
| 8th of January 1942 | DEATH | Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (Born 1869) |
| 8th of January 1943 | DEATH | Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (Born 1919) |
| 8th of January 1944 | DEATH | William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (Born 1878) |
| 8th of January 1945 | DEATH | Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (Born 1900) |
| 8th of January 1948 | DEATH | Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (Born 1891) |
| 8th of January 1948 | DEATH | Kurt Schwitters, German painter (Born 1887) |
| 8th of January 1950 | DEATH | Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (Born 1883) |
| 8th of January 1953 | DEATH | Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (Born 1883) |
| 8th of January 1956 | DEATH | Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (Born 1928) |
| 8th of January 1958 | DEATH | Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (Born 1883) |
| 8th of January 1963 | DEATH | Kay Sage, American artist and poet (Born 1898) |
| 8th of January 1967 | DEATH | Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (Born 1927) |
| 8th of January 1969 | DEATH | Albert Hill, British athlete (Born 1889) |
| 8th of January 1970 | DEATH | Georges Guibourg, French performer (Born 1891) |
| 8th of January 1972 | DEATH | Kenneth Patchen, American poet (Born 1911) |
| 8th of January 1975 | DEATH | John Gregson, English actor (Born 1919) |
| 8th of January 1975 | DEATH | Richard Tucker, American tenor (Born 1913) |
| 8th of January 1976 | DEATH | Robert Forgan, British fascist (Born 1891) |
| 8th of January 1976 | DEATH | Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (Born 1898) |
| 8th of January 1979 | DEATH | Sara Carter, American country musician (Born 1898) |
| 8th of January 1980 | DEATH | John Mauchly, American physicist (Born 1907) |
| 8th of January 1981 | DEATH | Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (Born 1925) |
| 8th of January 1982 | DEATH | Gregoire Aslan, Armenian actor (Born 1908) |
| 8th of January 1983 | DEATH | Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (Born 1919) |
| 8th of January 1983 | DEATH | Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (Born 1913) |
| 8th of January 1983 | DEATH | Ron Frazer, Australian actor (Born 1924) |
| 8th of January 1986 | DEATH | Pierre Fournier, French cellist (Born 1906) |
| 8th of January 1990 | DEATH | Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (Born 1911) |
| 8th of January 1991 | DEATH | Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (Born 1960) |
| 8th of January 1994 | DEATH | Pat Buttram, American actor (Born 1915) |
| 8th of January 1994 | DEATH | Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (Born 1925) |
| 8th of January 1995 | DEATH | Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (Born 1942) |
| 8th of January 1996 | DEATH | Francois Mitterrand, President of France (Born 1916) |
| 8th of January 1996 | DEATH | Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (Born 1907) |
| 8th of January 1996 | DEATH | John Hargreaves, Australian actor (Born 1945) |
| 8th of January 1997 | DEATH | Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1911) |
| 8th of January 1998 | DEATH | Michael Tippett, English composer (Born 1905) |
| 8th of January 2000 | DEATH | Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (Born 1918) |
| 8th of January 2002 | DEATH | Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (Born 1916) |
| 8th of January 2002 | DEATH | Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (Born 1932) |
| 8th of January 2003 | DEATH | Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (Born 1925) |
| 8th of January 2004 | DEATH | John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (Born 1930) |
| 8th of January 2005 | DEATH | Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (Born 1952) |
| 8th of January 2005 | DEATH | Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer (Born 1954) |
| 8th of January 2005 | DEATH | Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (Born 1914) |
| 8th of January 2006 | DEATH | Tony Banks, British politician (Born 1943) |
| 8th of January 2007 | DEATH | Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (Born 1922) |
| 8th of January 2007 | DEATH | Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (Born 1908) |
| 8th of January 2007 | DEATH | Francis Cockfield, British politician (Born 1916) |
| 8th of January 2007 | DEATH | David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (Born 1953) |
| 8th of January 2007 | DEATH | Iwao Takamoto, American animator (Born 1925) |
| 8th of January 2008 | DEATH | George Moore, Australian champion jockey (Born 1923) |
| 8th of January 2009 | DEATH | Richard John Neuhaus, Canadian-American Christian writer and editor (Born 1936) |
| 8th of January 2010 | DEATH | Tony Halme, Finnish boxer and politician (Born 1963) |
| 8th of January 2010 | DEATH | Monica Maughan, Australian actor (Born 1933) |
| 8th of January 2011 | DEATH | Thorbj?rn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (Born 1924) |
| 8th of January 2011 | DEATH | John Roll, United States Federal Judge (Born1947) |